McGrath Cup - Clare 0-12 Kerry 0-9: Paul Galvin will not be returning to the Kerry football set-up for the season ahead, manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice confirmed yesterday evening.

South Kerry 1-13 Killarney Legion 1-12 (AET): In the gloomy twilight of Fitzgerald Stadium, a set of crutches were called for.

DCU 1-14 UCC 2-10 (AET): Not for one minute had Tadgh Lowe stood between the posts in either the Higher Education league or O’Byrne Cup.

Plans have been unveiled for a €10m flood-relief scheme to protect a Cork satellite town which suffered serious damage in summer 2012.

Cashen Mafuma justified favouritism in Saturday night’s final of the Macroom Motor Services Stake at Curraheen Park.

Austin Stacks, without Kieran Donaghy, overpowered Spa in a Kerry SFL Division One mismatch (5-9 to 0-7) at windswept Connolly Park yesterday.

EOIN BROSNAN will line out for Kerry for the first time since the 2009 Munster semi-final replay defeat to Cork, when the Kingdom travel to face Mayo in Sunday’s Allianz Division 1 Football League clash in Castlebar.

AS phoney wars go, this was a compelling one.

IN ITS most basic form National League football can be, and has been, a platform for many a good team and many a good player.

WINNING the National league title following All-Ireland success the year previous is a feat that hasn’t been achieved since Meath claimed honours back in 1988.

THERE were few signs of celebrations amongst the local football support after Saturday’s McGrath Cup final in Dr Crokes grounds in Killarney.

TALK about much ado about nothing.

DEFENDER Conor Dervan makes his first appearance for Galway since the 2008 championship when he starts against Tipperary in the Allianz NHL at Semple Stadium on Sunday.

ALL-IRELAND champions Cork have been dealt a massive blow ahead of Saturday’s Munster U21 FC quarter-final against Kerry with senior defender Aidan Walsh a doubt due to a hamstring injury.

THEY really don’t come any more dramatic than this!

ROCKWELL COLLEGE, one of the traditional powerhouses in the game for more than a century, and Castletroy College, who have burst on to the scene in sensational fashion over the past few years, clash in an intriguing Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final at Clanwilliam Park, Tipperary this afternoon (3pm).

A SUPERB drop goal by centre Peter Murray three and a half minutes into added time earned Castletroy College victory over champions CBC at Greenfields yesterday and an opportunity to reclaim the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup they last won in 2008.

VICTORS and vanquished will reflect on this Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup tie and wonder how the scoreline was so lopsided.

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MEATH boss Eamonn O’Brien has confirmed defender Kevin Reilly will not feature in Sunday week’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Kerry.

LOUTH attacker Aaron Hoey has been ruled out of his county’s Leinster SFC opener against Carlow at Parnell Park next Sunday after tearing a hamstring in training over the weekend.

The focus of the latest Cork-Kerry clash will undoubtedly be on David Moran and Tommy Walsh, the senior stars who already have U21 All-Ireland medals in their collection.

IN hurricane season, you track the storm as it moves on. The place that was devastated yesterday is becalmed today. Some place further up the line is now bearing the brunt of its fury.

Presentation Brothers College added another major piece of silverware to their 2006/07 collection after capturing the Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Junior Cup title at rain-swept Dooradoyle yesterday.

RUBY WALSH turned up the temperature at Ballybeggan Park yesterday with a sparkling treble as the big turn out enjoyed some fine racing in brilliant sunshine.

Athline IT 43 UL 32.